Miamira striata (Eliot, 1904)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Orodoris striata Eliot 1904
Conservation Status
Last record: 1971 or before (Edmunds et al., 1971)
Rediscovered in: 2007 or before (specimen) (Debelius & Kuiter 2007); 13 June 2014 (specimen) (Tibiriçá et al., 2021); 2014 or later (recognition) (Tibiriçá et al., 2021)
Distribution & Habitat
Western Indian Ocean
Type locality: "Pemba Island, Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania" (Tibiriçá et al., 2021)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Eliot, C. N. E. (1905 "1904"). On some nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar. Part VI. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904(2): 268-298, pls 16-17.
Other references:
Debelius, H. and Kuiter, R. H. (2007). Nudibranchs of the World. IKAN-Unterwasserarchiv, Frankfurt. 260 pp.
Edmunds, M. (1971). Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Tanzania (Suborder: Doridacea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50: 339-396, pl. 1.
Eliot, C. N. (1910). Nudibranchs collected by Mr. Stanley Gardiner from the Indian Ocean in H.M.S. Sealark. In: Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M. A. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology (2) 13: 411-438, pl. 25. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1910.tb00082.x
Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Cape Town, South Africa: Southern Underwater Research Group Press.
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Miamira striata (Eliot, 1905). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1513897 on 2025-06-05
Tibiriçá, Y., Pola, M. and Cervera, J. L. (2017). Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique. Zootaxa 4359(1): 1-133. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1
Tibiriçá, Yara et al. (2021). Redescription of a forgotten nudibranch Miamira striata (Eliot, 1904) and review of the taxonomic status of the genus Orodoris (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae: Miamirinae). Zootaxa 4981(1): 151-165. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4981.1.8
Valdés, Ángel and Gosliner, Terrence M. (1999). Reassessment of the systematic status of Miamira Bergh, 1875 and Orodoris Bergh, 1875 (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) in light of phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 65(1): 33-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/65.1.33